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On July 22, a Ukrainian drone strike targeted an ammunition depot in the central part of Crimea, according to the peninsula’s governor.
Writing on Telegram, governor Sergey Aksyonov said that the ammunition depot, which is located in the Krasnogvardeysky district, had been blown up. Videos of the explosion surfaced online. However, there were no casualties, according to the governor.
“A decision has been made to evacuate the population within a 5km radius from the site of the emergency and place them in temporary accommodation facilities,” Aksyonov said.
The governor stated that the authorities had also suspended rail traffic in the area in order to “minimize risks,” while expressing hope that the emergency would be dealt with quickly.
The Kiev regime confirmed the strike on Crimea, claiming that they “had destroyed an oil depot and Russian military warehouses” in the peninsula. Some Ukrainian news sources alleged that the strike was not carried out with drones, but with British-supplied Storm Shadow air-launched cruise missiles. This is yet to be confirmed, however.
This was Ukraine’s fifth attack on Crimea this week. The Russian military responded to previous attacks by striking high-value military targets in Odessa and nearby regions.
The attack on Odessa was not the only escalation by Ukraine on July 22. The Russian Ministry of Defense announced later in the day, that four Izvestiya and RIA Novosti reporters were injured in a Ukrainian cluster munitions strike in the Zaporozhye region.
“At about 12:00 on July 22, 2023, Ukrainian forces carried out an artillery strike at a group of Izvestia and RIA Novosti reporters preparing their reports about Ukrainian cluster munition shellings of Zaporozhye Region settlements. A cluster munitions strike caused various injuries to four reporters,” the Ministry said.
The Defense Ministry noted that RIA Novosti reporter Rostislav Zhuravlyov succumbed to his injuries during the evacuation.
“Other reporters’ condition is medium, stable. Their lives are not in danger. They are being provided with all necessary medical aid,” the Ministry added.
Separately, the ministry announced in its daily briefing that a large number of Polish and German mercenaries were killed in the July 6 Russian strike on the Ukrainian armed forces academy in Lvov.
“According to verified information, the July 6 group strike with long-range naval-based precision weapons at the Ukrainian armed forces’ ground forces academy in Lvov resulted in a large number of eliminated Polish and German mercenaries, who were accommodated there,” the ministry’s spokesman, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, said.
The spokesman pointed out that 4,990 foreign mercenaries have been eliminated and 4,910 more mercenaries fled from Ukraine since the start of the Russian special military operation in the country last year.
“The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will continue the targeted destruction of foreign mercenaries on the territory of Ukraine,” Lt. Gen. Konashenkov warned.
The ministry also announced that the Russian military had repelled a new wave of Ukrainian attacks in the directions of Donetsk, Krasny Liman, South Donetsk, and Zaporozhye.
In its briefing, the ministry detailed recent operations as follows:
In the Donetsk direction, as a result of coordinated and active actions by units of the Yug Group of Forces, aviation and artillery, 14 enemy attacks have been successfully repelled near Belogorovka, Berestovoye, Spornoye, Zaitsevo, and Kleshcheevka (Donetsk People’s Republic).
In addition, AFU 28th, 60th, 115th mechanized, 10th mountain assault and 81st airmobile brigades, as well as 2 field camps of foreign mercenaries, have been hit close to Zolotaryovka (Lugansk People’s Republic), Veseloye and Yasnogorka (Donetsk People’s Republic).
Ammunition depots of the 24th and 28th mechanized brigades of the AFU have been destroyed near Novgorodskoye and Konstantinovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).
The enemy losses were 280 Ukrainian servicemen, 3 armored fighting vehicles, 5 motor vehicles, 1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system and 3 D-30 howitzers.
In the Krasny Liman direction, as a result of coordinated actions by aviation, artillery, heavy flamethrower systems, and units of the Tsentr Group of Forces, 7 enemy attacks have been repelled close to Karmazinovka, Kremennaya, Novovodyanoye and Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People’s Republic).
In addition, units of 21st, 66th and 67th mechanized brigades of AFU have been eliminated close to Kovalyova (Lugansk People’s Republic), Terny and Yampolovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).
The activities of 1 Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group have been suppressed close to Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People’s Republic).
The enemy losses were up to 170 Ukrainian servicemen, 7 armored fighting vehicles, 5 pickup trucks, 1 Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer, 2 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems, as well as 1 D-30 howitzer.
In the South Donetsk direction, as a result of the actions by aviation, artillery and heavy flamethrower systems of the Vostok Group of Forces, 3 enemy attacks have been repelled near Urozhaynoye and Priyutnoye (Donetsk People’s Republic).
In addition, enemy manpower and hardware concentration areas of the 23rd Mechanised Brigade and the 129th Territorial Defence Brigade have been hit close to Staromayorskoye and Priyutnoye (Donetsk People’s Republic).
In the Zaporozhye direction, as a result of active actions by the Group’s artillery and units, activities of 2 Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups have been suppressed near Lugovskoye and Marfopol (Zaporozhye region).
Russian troops launched an attack on manpower and hardware of the 33rd, 47th and 65th mechanised brigades of the AFU close to Malaya Tokmachka, Novodanilovka and Novopokrovka (Zaporozhye region).
The enemy losses were up to 190 Ukrainian servicemen, 2 tanks, 6 armored fighting vehicles, 2 motor vehicles, 1 Msta-B howitzer, 1 U.S.-manufactured M777 artillery system and 1 U.K.-manufactured FH-70 howitzer.
In the Kupyansk direction, as a result of actions by aviation and artillery of the Zapad Group of Forces, manpower and hardware of the 14th Mechanised Brigade of the AFU and the 103rd Territorial Defence Brigade have been hit close to Novomlynsk, Tabayevka (Kharkov region) and Stelmakhovka (Lugansk People’s Republic).
In addition, 1 Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group has been destroyed near Novosyolovskoye (Lugansk People’s Republic).
The enemy losses were up to 110 Ukrainian servicemen, 2 armored fighting vehicles, 2 motor vehicles and 2 D-20 howitzers.
In the Kherson direction, the enemy losses were over 30 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored fighting vehicles, 2 motor vehicles and 2 D-30 howitzers.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have neutralized 94 AFU artillery units at their firing positions, manpower and hardware in 117 areas.
1 temporary deployment point of foreign mercenaries’ unit has been hit close to Goncharovskoye (Chernigov region).
In addition, an aviation fuel storage has been destroyed at the Kanatovo airbase of the Ukrainian Air Force (Kirovograd region).
Air defense facilities have intercepted 15 HIMARS multiple-launch rocket system projectiles, 3 HARM anti-radiation missiles, and 1 Storm Shadow cruise missile.
In addition, 15 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have been destroyed close to Kremennaya (Lugansk People’s Republic), Gorlovka, Novobakhmutovka, Novoukrainka (Donetsk People’s Republic), Preobrazhenka, Novopokrovka, Nesteryanka (Zaporozhye region) and Sadovoye (Kherson region).
In total, 456 airplanes, 243 helicopters, 5,169 unmanned aerial vehicles, 426 air defense missile systems, 10,811 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 1,139 fighting vehicles equipped with MLRS, 5,562 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 11,803 special military motor vehicles have been destroyed during the special military operation.
Meanwhile, several new videos from the front surfaced online. The videos shows a series of strikes by Ka-52 attack helicopters, Lancet loitering munitions and Krasnopol precision-guided artillery shells against Ukrainian military equipment, including a Solvinina-supplied M-55S tank, an American-made M777 towed howitzer and a Soviet-made Strela-10 short-range air defense system.
Ukraine’s decision to escalate attacks on Crimea is likely an attempt to deflect attention from the failure of its counteroffensive. Kiev forces have sustained heavy losses and failed to make any meaningful gains on the ground since the beginning of the counteroffensive some six weeks ago.
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the drooling strategists at nato must now feel comfortable having their ukrainian proxy launching nato acm-s ,cluster munitions and drones into russia but the consequences do not seem fully considered by nato leaders.
the russian doctrine specifies it clearly. any foreign state aiding, using or supplying banned weaponry is a legitimate target. and it will be hit, and no need here to deploy hypersonic techonolgy.
same story everyday. ukronazi clowns die at a rate of at least 10 to 1 and then look for a distraction in the form of attacks on civilian infrastructure in crimea.
please russia bomb the shit out of kiew what are you waiting for , you know where the terrorists are so bomb those bastards to hell
i have read that since day one.
bunker rat putin is a impotent old fart, he would have done it long time ago,if only he could. no viagra available for running a corrupt,impotent shithole country / society like russland.
time for endlösung der russenfrage and debumbification of the ivan flatheads, it is overdue 120+ years
those ukraine cemeteries are just filling up every day. you should go there to fight with them big tough guy. yes you could be a big star in the showers. they like young men, especially raping them. in fact they prefer men over women in the trenches.
bombing kiev will only give halliburton & co a chance to make $bns rebuilding it. rus needs to think strategically & take back as much of ukr (inc odessa) as possible from us corporates, elites & their ukronazi proxies. if not, rus could lose simply because it has forgotten why it is fighting. 4,500+ innocent donb civilians have died since the smo started, & rus still hasn’t gained the whole luhansk pr or donestsk pr, let alone set up an effective dmz!
‘ “..the (rf) will continue the… …destruction of foreign mercenaries…” lt. gen. konashenkov’ so how about: (1) preventing the deaths of crim, don & rus civilians? (2) pushing into ukr to create a dmz instead of digging trenches? (3) destroying nato weapons before they reach the front line? (4) fulfilling the purpose of the smo, & quickly, instead of thousands of innocents dying? war is about territory gained not a final body count. soccer is won on goals not fouls.
putin’s redlines that nobody cares about.
the old school nato/ washington folks still care too much about those fantasy lines, if they understood putlers mafia background better,the whole shit special operation would have been over 15 months ago.
legion condor/ adler would be flying, 1500+ abrahams be roling and putler would have backed off months ago, just like he did when facing turkey or israhell.
poland has the lowest priced politicians on earth and the eugenicists are so happy that the stupid poles are bought so cheaply. they laugh about it over expensive dinners of the finest food money can buy. yes go die some more for them please 😁
so what it turns out russian federation. crimea, cannot shoot cruise missiles with the best air defense in the world, i have read here 10s of statements of shot down cruise missiles storm shadow, how come these missiles just enter the air space, of crimea, where in crimea there is tor m2, pantsir s1, s-400, and other air defenses. i just wonder how this happens, when on the radar of s-400 everything can be detected, this really questions the air defense of russia in crimea.
no começo da guerra os russos usaram essas bombas, e usaram em área civil, onde muitos civis inocentes morreram, uma ginástica ucraniana medalhista morreu num desses ataques. é proibido usar essas bombas, mas rússia , usa, e ucrânia não assinaram o tratado. é permitido usar na guerra para eliminar o inimigo, a ucrânia usar dentro do seu território ocupado ilegalmente, não vai usar contra civis
lost is to be increasing by stroller use
cut off odessa!
kalashnikov and their lancet will experience a brutal demand for the deadly drone. it has destroyed easily 400 vehicles. the defeat of the s-300 are my favorite
the kiev nazis will claim a big victory dismissing the tens of thousands of afu soldiers and equipment destroyed, not to mention civilians killed. this is their mod to beg nato for more and more. they have cluster munitions now what’s next poison gas?
.russia will grind them into worm feed. go fight for the billionaires in kiev so they can buy more multimillion dollar properties in switzerland and all over the world